# Botticelli August 2023 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 3, 2023, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985 "2023-08-03T02:27:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/101 "2023-08-11T14:55:11Z")
DQs: 1. Known from the Arts? 2. Caucasian? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/102 "2023-08-11T14:57:28Z")
IQs: 1. Are you a senator from West Virginia who’s single-handedly fighting his party line on climate change? 2. Did you compose _The Entertainer_? 3. Were you born Ferdinand LeMothe? ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/103 "2023-08-11T15:31:09Z")
IQs: 1. Are you the most famous wearer of a whoopee cap? 2. Did you ask the Lord for a Mercedes-Benz and a color TV? 3. In Robert Silverberg’s “After the Myths Went Home”, are you one of the legendary figures resurrected in the far future, a “god of youth and springtime” with a bloodied head–though you protest you were real? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/104 "2023-08-11T15:34:56Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Are you a senator from West Virginia who’s single-handedly fighting his party line on climate change? > 2. Did you compose _The Entertainer_? > 3. Were you born Ferdinand LeMothe? Not Joe Manchin (booo!), Scott Joplin or Justin Timberlake. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Are you the most famous wearer of a whoopee cap? > 2. Did you ask the Lord for a Mercedes-Benz and a color TV? > 3. In Robert Silverberg’s “After the Myths Went Home”, are you one of the legendary figures resurrected in the far future, a “god of youth and springtime” with a bloodied head–though you protest you were real? Dunno, not Janis Joplin and not John F. Kennedy. J. 1. real 2. last name begins with J 3. male 4. dead 5. not from the USA 6. died before 1900 7. not known from the Arts 8. Caucasian ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/105 "2023-08-11T15:51:44Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > … > > IQs: > > > > 1. Did Robert Redford gain weight and grow a bushy beard to play you? > > 2. Did you write _The City We Became_? > > 3. Were you a Georgia-born actor and comedian who wore overalls for 14 seasons of a country-music variety show? > > Not Jeremiah Johnson, dunno, and not Junior Whatshisname on _Hee Haw_. Correct on IQ1. IQ2 was N.K. Jemisin, and IQ3 was indeed Alvin “Junior” Samples. DQ: Known for politics/military? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/106 "2023-08-11T15:57:11Z")
1. Did you sing about offering your girlfriend a gift - your dick in a box? 2. Are you famously two-faced? 3. Are you a controversial civil rights activist who was on the balcony with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. when he was assassinated, and who claims to have held him as he was dying? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/107 "2023-08-11T16:01:26Z")
IQ: 1. While your husband was stationed in Paris for the state department, did you learn the skills you needed to catapult you from a housewife to a household name. 2. Were you executed for espionage in the early 50’s 3. in the lands of the true game, were you the wizard daughter of a dervish who could feel the location of the old paths through her feet. ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/108 "2023-08-11T16:13:55Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > 1. Are you the most famous wearer of a whoopee cap? > 2. Did you ask the Lord for a Mercedes-Benz and a color TV? > 3. In Robert Silverberg’s “After the Myths Went Home”, are you one of the legendary figures resurrected in the far future, a “god of youth and springtime” with a bloodied head–though you protest you were real? > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Dunno, not Janis Joplin and not John F. Kennedy. 1 was Jughead Jones. DQ: died before 1700? IQs: 1. Were you appointed to the Supreme Court by Joe Biden? 2. Did you have 99 problems, but none involving women? 3. Did you work at Gizmonic Institute, just another face in a red jumpsuit–you did a good job cleaning up the place, but your bosses didn’t like you so they shot you into spaaaaaaaacce…? ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/109 "2023-08-11T16:18:12Z")
IQ1: Were you also known as Korak the Killer" IQ2: Were you #1’s father? IQ3: Were you Dr Doolittle under another name? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/110 "2023-08-11T16:44:16Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Are you a senator from West Virginia who’s single-handedly fighting his party line on climate change? > > 2. Did you compose _The Entertainer_? > > 3. Were you born Ferdinand LeMothe? > > Not Joe Manchin (booo!), Scott Joplin or Justin Timberlake. Correct, Correct, and Jelly Roll Morton. DQ: European? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/111 "2023-08-11T16:47:09Z")
I IQs: 1. Have you been Elastic Lad, Flamebird and Giant Turtle Boy? 2. Are you currently the DCU equivalent of the MCU’s Kevin Feige? 3. Did Guy Fawkes try to blow up Parliament when you were there? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/112 "2023-08-11T17:57:34Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > 1. Did you sing about offering your girlfriend a gift - your dick in a box? > 2. Are you famously two-faced? > 3. Are you a controversial civil rights activist who was on the balcony with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. when he was assassinated, and who claims to have held him as he was dying? Still not Justin Timberlake, not Janus, and not Jesse Jackson. > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > IQ: > > 1. While your husband was stationed in Paris for the state department, did you learn the skills you needed to catapult you from a housewife to a household name. > 2. Were you executed for espionage in the early 50’s > 3. in the lands of the true game, were you the wizard daughter of a dervish who could feel the location of the old paths through her feet. Not Julia Child, not Julius Rosenberg and dunno. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > … > IQs: > 1. Were you appointed to the Supreme Court by Joe Biden? > 2. Did you have 99 problems, but none involving women? > 3. Did you work at Gizmonic Institute, just another face in a red jumpsuit–you did a good job cleaning up the place, but your bosses didn’t like you so they shot you into spaaaaaaaacce…? Not Justice Ketanji (sp?) Brown Jackson, dunno and not John Bigboote. > [@SCAdian](#): > > IQ1: Were you also known as Korak the Killer" > IQ2: Were you #1’s father? > IQ3: Were you Dr Doolittle under another name? Dunno x3. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Have you been Elastic Lad, Flamebird and Giant Turtle Boy? > 2. Are you currently the DCU equivalent of the MCU’s Kevin Feige? > 3. Did Guy Fawkes try to blow up Parliament when you were there? Dunno, dunno and not King James… VI? J. 1. real 2. last name begins with J 3. male 4. dead 5. not from the USA 6. died before 1900 7. not known from the Arts 8. Caucasian 9. known for politics/military, indirectly 10. died after 1700 11. European ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/113 "2023-08-11T18:12:23Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > > > 1. While your husband was stationed in Paris for the state department, did you learn the skills you needed to catapult you from a housewife to a household name. > > 2. Were you executed for espionage in the early 50’s > > 3. in the lands of the true game, were you the wizard daughter of a dervish who could feel the location of the old paths through her feet. > > Not Julia Child, not Julius Rosenberg and dunno. First two correct, last one is Jinian from the final trilogy of the [True Game series](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_True_Game) by Sheri S Tepper DQ: Of Noble birth? ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/114 "2023-08-11T18:12:30Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not Justice Ketanji (sp?) Brown Jackson, dunno and not John Bigboote. 2 was Jay-Z; 3 was Joel Robinson, in _Mystery Science Theater 3000_. DQs: 1. died after 1800? 2. from the Anglo-Irish isles? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/115 "2023-08-11T18:17:00Z")
J. 1. real 2. last name begins with J 3. male 4. dead 5. not from the USA 6. died before 1900 7. not known from the Arts 8. Caucasian 9. known for politics/military, indirectly 10. died after 1700 11. European 12. not of Noble birth 13. year apparently unknown, but probably died before 1800 14. from the Anglo-Irish isles ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/116 "2023-08-11T19:16:43Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > > > IQs: > > > > 1. Have you been Elastic Lad, Flamebird and Giant Turtle Boy? > > 2. Are you currently the DCU equivalent of the MCU’s Kevin Feige? > > 3. Did Guy Fawkes try to blow up Parliament when you were there? > > Dunno, dunno and not King James… VI? #1 is Jimmy Olsen. #2 is James Gunn. #3 was King James I. DQ: Known for a connection to the American colonies? 2 DQs reserved. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/117 "2023-08-11T21:12:08Z")
IQ: 1. Was a book and movie made of your adventures with an enlarged fruit 2. Did you carry seven million dollars in cash across the desert on foot to pay the bail of a Mexican drug lord. 3. Did you play the cyclops and the Coen brother’s re-imagining of the Odyssey. . ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/118 "2023-08-11T21:46:53Z")
IQs: 1. Did Sam save you and thus change history (in the show, at least) in an episode of _Quantum Leap_? 2. Did a practical joker print a message on the back of your uniform stating that you were a jerk? 3. Did Jim Freund, host of the _Hour of the Wolf_ radio show, call you up and ask how to pronounce the name of one of your characters? ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/119 "2023-08-11T21:59:42Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > > [@SCAdian](#): > > > > IQ1: Were you also known as Korak the Killer" > > IQ2: Were you #1’s father? > > IQ3: Were you Dr Doolittle under another name? > > Dunno x3. John “Jack” Clayton. John Clayton, Viscount Greystoke – aka Tarzan King Jong Thinkalot DQ: English? Two DQs reserved. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2023, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985/120 "2023-08-11T22:22:07Z")
IQs: 1. Did you command one of the fleets involved in the Battle of Jutland? 2. Are you a Gumby Cat known to Munkustrap? 3. Do you keep one fingernail painted with red polish, to distract attention from your other fingers while you work? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2023/987985.md?page=7)